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Read these two editorials by the editor Anders Örtenblad:

Editorial objectives

The Learning Organization is an international journal with a focus on learning organizations and organizational learning. TLO is the only journal uniquely dedicated to the debate, discussion and analysis of learning and knowledge creation from an organizational perspective.

TLO aims to contribute to the development of high quality research, new insights and challenges to current thinking around the learning organization/organizational learning and provide a platform for research that enhances organizational productivity and/or knowledge development. The journal invites conceptual papers alongside empirical research irrespective of whether a qualitative or quantitative approach is used. We would also like to encourage manuscripts that approach the learning organization/organizational learning from an interpretive or critical approach. However, it is key to the ethos of the journal that all manuscripts include some organizational aspect to 'learning', 'knowing' or 'knowledge creation'.

Unique to The Learning Organization is the 'Implications for Practitioners' section which summarizes the academic debate in the field in an easy-to-digest format for its practitioner audience while offering academic contributors abn effective route to demonstrate that their research and theory has real world impact.

Subject areas include, but are not limited to:

Broadening understanding of what the learning organization/organizational learning is

The effectiveness of the learning organization/organizational learning initiatives

The role of the learning organization in other disciplines/fields, for example, knowledge management; corporate social responsibility; equality and diversity; sustainable business

Key journal audiences:

Learning organization and organizational learning researchers

Researchers and practitioners in management development

Change management and development professionals and leadership consultants

Recent Special Issues:

Goals, Stakeholder Voice and Organizational Learning (Volume 26, Issue 2) - Guest Editors: William D. Schneper, David A. Wernick and Mary Ann von Glinow. This special section was inspired in part by a simple conceptual model highlighting the impact of both organizational goals and stakeholders and on organizational change and learning that we first described in Burke and Cooper's (2013) edited volume on voice and whistleblowing in organizations.